Flooded streets and restricted mobility in some neighborhoods of the city have caused the rainfall that has fallen in Santa Marta in the last few hours, especially in the eastern neighborhoods, according to reports provided by state relief agencies.
Santa Marta Fire Department, Civil Defense and the District Disaster Risk Management Office, Ogricc, have reported that indeed in sectors of the road to Minca, entrance to the University of Magdalena, Curinca, La Lucha, Lebanon 2000, María Eugenia, among others, it has rained, their presence has not been required.
They also confirmed that the rivers that flow down from the Sierra Nevada and that have influence on Santa Marta, such as the Manzanares and Gaira, are maintaining their normal course, which indicates that on the San Lorenzo slope, where the rainfall originates, it has not been as heavy as in other sectors of the intertropical massif.
Residents in the María Eugenia, Pastrana and Las Américas neighborhoods such as Bastidas, Ondas del Caribe, Los Fundadores and others from the northeastern area, former Commune Cinco, are demanding that the District Administration send the Yellow Machinery, to remove the mud that They have left them in the middle of the streets.
The neighborhoods in that area, especially in Bastidas, the runoff waters have not caused flooding in their lower part, because fortunately they have the Bastidas – Caribbean Sea Pluvial Canal that evacuates them to the ocean, in the Pescaíto sea sector.
RED ALERT MAINTAINS
“Based on the Ideam predictions, we have issued early warnings so that the peasant, indigenous and urban communities that are settled on the banks of the two tributaries that flow into the Caribbean Sea are alert to possible sudden floods,” said Alex Velásquez Alzamora, director of the District Ogricc.
The official assured that until the weather conditions in the jurisdiction improve, the red alert will remain in force to prevent landslides on slopes and sudden floods.
The Civil Defense has also made its recommendations so that residents in the urban and rural areas of the District remain expectant of the climatic changes that are occurring in the region due to natural and physical phenomena.
The institution that has always been expectant of cases of flooding in the city’s neighborhoods, as does the Volunteer Fire Department, during and after rainfall conduct tours of the neighborhoods that historically suffer from flooding, as in the case of Pescaíto and the northern area.
It was finally learned that due to the rains that have fallen in recent hours, the circulation of urban transport vehicles has been restricted to working-class areas and landslide zones.
In neighborhoods such as Galicia, Bastidas, María Eugenia, Pastrana, San Pablo, Once de Noviembre and others, the frequency of bus dispatch was altered for the reasons stated, which not only affects transporters and passengers, but also commerce in general.
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